Lower and middle school complete another successful fall season

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The lower and middle school fall sports seasons recently came to a close. Check out how each team finished, along with all the team awards.

Middle School WBAL Swim Finals:

The middle school boys took third overall and the girls finished fifth overall.

Grade 6 boys 100-yard medley relay team, second place

Ethan Leelanivas, grade 6, boys 25-yard butterfly, third place

Rajas Apte, grade 7, boys 50 yard freestyle, second place

Adam Pawliger, grade 7, boys 50-yard freestyle, third place

Mirabelle Feng, grade 7,  girls 50-yard backstroke, second place

Andrew Au, grade 8, boys 50-yard backstroke, third place

Middle School Swimming: Team awards went to Rahul Sundaresan, grade 6 (MVP), Simon Kirjner, grade 6 (Eagle) and Claire Zhao, grade 7 (Coaches). The team was coached by Tania Chadwick, Justin Culpepper, Ysabel Chen and Betsy Tian.

Lower School Swimming: Team awards went to Ian Cheline, grade 5 (MVP), Amanda Lee-Shen, grade 4 (Eagle) and Manalee Chowdhury, grade 4 (Coaches). The team was coached by Tania Chadwick, Justin Culpepper, Ysabel Chen and Betsy Tian.

Middle School WBAL Cross Country Finals:

Grade 6 boys team, second place

Grade 7-8 boys team, third place

Grade 7-8 girls team, ninth place

Stanley Chen, grade 6, boys, first place

Brian Choi, grade 6, boys, eighth place 

Alejandro Cheline, grade 6, boys, ninth place

Shreya Vemulapalli, grade 6, girls, 24th place

Andrew Smith, grade 8, boys, second place

Veyd Patil, grade 8, boys, seventh place

Layla McClure, grade 7, girls, 41st place

Middle School Cross Country: Team awards went to Stanley Chen, grade 6 (MVP), Brian Choi, grade 6, and Andrew Smith, grade 8 (Eagle), and Eric Zhang, grade 7, and Kaleb Goldin, grade 7 (Coaches). The team was coached by Samantha Salfen, Sara Pawloski and Ron Paranada.

Middle School Golf: The middle school golf team took second place in the WBAL fall tournament. The top Harker golfer was Ryan Zhang, grade 8 (35), followed by Yu Bai, grade 8 (37), Allison Yang, grade 7 (38) and Ashley Mo, grade 6 (39).

VA (grade 8) Flag Football: The Varsity A team, coached by Randy LeGris and Mike Delfino, finished in eighth place in the WBAL with a record of 0-5 and went 0-7 overall. Team awards went to Ryan Barth (MVP), Kevin Bettencourt (Eagle) and Om Tandon (Coaches).

VB (grade 7) Flag Football: The Varsity B team, coached by Tim Hopkins and Dini Wong, finished in fourth place in the WBAL with a 3-2-1 record and went 3-3-1 overall. Team awards went to Vyom Vidyarthi (MVP), Bowen Xia (Eagle) and Drew Diffenderfer (Coaches).

JVA (grade 6) Flag Football: The Junior Varsity A team, coached by Richard Amarillas, finished in fourth place in the WBAL with a 3-3 league record. Team awards went to Brennan Williams and Rishaan Thoppay (MVP), Topaz Lee (Eagle) and Ritik Raman (Coaches).

JVB (grade 5) Flag Football: The Junior Varsity B team, coached by Karriem Stinson and Tobias Wade, finished in second place in the WBAL with a 3-1 league record and went 4-1 overall. Team awards went to Mason Brooks (MVP), David Kelly and Zackary Delfino (Eagle).

LS Intramural Flag Football (grade 4): Team awards went to Nicky Kerko and Reid Bardin (Eagle) and Ricardo Sanchez (Coaches). The team was coached by Walid Fahmy.

VA (grade 6-8) Softball: The Varsity A team, coached by Adam Albers and Raul Rios, finished in second place in the WBAL with a record of 4-1 and went 4-2 overall. Team awards went to Keren Eisenberg, grade 7 (MVP), Angelina Burrows, grade 7 (Eagle) and Kira Bardin, grade 6 (Coaches).

JVA (grade 4-5) Softball: The Junior Varsity A team, coached by Jon Cvitanich, Megan Regan and Colleen Campbell, finished in first place in the WBAL with a record of 3-1. Team awards went to Raeanne Li, grade 5 (MVP), Keira Kelly, grade 5 (Eagle) and Ameera Ramzan, grade 5 (Coaches).

VA (grade 6-8) Girls Lacrosse: The Varsity A team, coached by Morgan Smith and Hannah Grannis, competed in a number of friendly tournaments and a few solo matches with other schools this season. The team went from six participants last year to more than 20 this year! Team awards went to Kate Grannis, grade 8 (MVP), Abby Lim, grade 7 (Eagle) and Shaina Cohen, grade 6 (Coaches).

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